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My story will be a bit(could be too much) long, so I put this report separately from @Kane's report. I'm not sure I can do this or not 'cause this is my first time to write same topic from others'. If I should not do this, I apologize administrator for making bothersome
Before I start my story, I convey my profound and huge gratitude to @crinus for taking me quarries(these travels were my very first visiting to not only quarries, but also Ontario's fossil site!) and giving a lot of nice fossils to me what he found, and to @Northern Sharks for giving a nice specimen to me what he found as well from Brechin quarry and organizing Bowmanville journey(I didn't know that until seeing from @Kane's report. I'm not sure that you set the all plans), and to @Malcolmt for giving a complete crinoid to me, which is my first complete crinoid possessing arms and stems, and finally to everyone that I've met on this travel for welcoming me *Plus - My report will be incomplete 'cause I don't know that much about Ontario's geological information and some species' scientific names. So, I'll appreciate greatly if you guys tell me about right information and help me to correct it
I revised this post a loooot of times 'cause I realized that it was not report, but a proper diary(Too Much Information.. and still, it's like a diary..)
Well.. Now then, I'll begin my long story with some pictures though I couldn't make to take that many pictures of quarries and people. As for the Brechin quarry, I forgot to take my phone and there was no time to take DSLR out from my bag. And as for the Bowmanville quarry, I was so concentrating to find fossils that I forgot to take pictures
﻿*Date : Oct.21&22.2017
*Location : Brechin quarry & Bowmanville quarry
*Records of formation : Brechin quarry - D -----> Upper Verulam Formation(There was a "cluster" of fauna that I think it's different from below one. Color was bright grey and somewhat yellowish)
DD -----> Middle Verulam Formation(Bluish and grey rocks with vurnerable condition)
DDD -----> Lower Verulam Formation(Brown and grey rocks)
DDDD -----> Upper Bobcaygeon Formation(Alternates between sublithogenic and medium calcarenitic limestone, but also includes some brown lithographic limestone and bluish fine-grained limestone in minor thicknesses)[*]
[Buried under the ground] Middle Bobcaygeon Formation(Grey and brown, very fine grained to sublithogenic, sparsely fossiliferous limestone, with some fine-grained limestone in the upper part)[*]
[Buried under the ground] Lower Bobcaygeon Formation(Brownish grey, fine- and medium-grained limestone)[*]
(Reference - [*] Bobcaygeon formation - Weblex Canada. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://weblex.nrcan.gc.ca/html/001000/GSCC00053001579.html
@Northern Sharks informed me! Thank you! )
Bowmanville quarry - D -----> Blue Mountain Formation (I couldn't get there.)
DD Upper Lindsay formation
DDD Level 2 (?)
DDDD Level 3(?)
- Lower Lindsay formation (Below as well. The quarry was so biiiiiig!!)
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*Geological Age - Middle Ordovician
These all rocks are what I took. Maybe I took a lot of fossils even if it is only a small part of trilobites. I just so excited that I found Ontario's trilobites directly, not through internet store or pictures! Well.. Now I'm worried the weight.. Could I take these whole fossils?... I should have considered about it, not just collect unnecessary things by my instinct. It was not a clever move..
That crinoid(at 11 O'clock-wise) is not what I found these quarries. I found it from Scarbourough bluffers park before.
To begin, the beginning of the day(Oct.21) I've met @crinus first at the very early morning of the day(For me. 'cause I'm not the early bird type).
Actually, we met from Ebay. I won his two auction and I asked him that would you wait for me until I get to Canada in order to reduce shipping cost. Then, he offered me to go to quarries with him!
Anyway, we arrived there around at 8:30 AM and there were 4 or more people had already arrived. I've met @Malcolmt and two other people(Sorry, I can't remember the name. My poor memory..) on near the greenish and bluish pond in the quarry. After handshaking, @crinus and I went to the piles of rocks, which is near the pond. We climbed up the piles of rocks and met @Northern Sharks on there. He found one complete Calyptaulax sp. and dropped it from his hand while we were greeting each other(yet, fortunately, the trilobite was alive with small crack on the pygidium(if my memory is correct))
After the greeting, @crinus and @Northern Sharks went to another place and I remained there, which was that @Northern Sharks found a trilobite, and looked for trilobites with hammering big rocks. I found a horn coral, which is Lambeophyllum profundum Conrad, 1843, the cephalon part of Ceraurus sp. , and a loooot of brachiopods and so on
It came from lower Verulam formation. This one is Lambeophyllum profundum Conrad, 1843( @Northern Sharks and @FossilDAWG informed me! Thank you! )
Ceraurus globulobatus?
I don't know the exact name of this specimen.. This one maybe came from the middle Verulam formation because of its color. Though I found this from the lower Verulam formation area.

Bought before I knew much about trilobites (not that I know a great deal now) in a peculiar place in the New Mexican desert. I bought it for twice as much as I should have. I know very little about this specimen. It might be a flexicalymene.

Taxonomy: Flexicalymene senaria
Age: M. Ordovician
Location: Brechin, ON (Verulam Fm).
Source: Self-collected
Remarks: Prone specimen crushed in the centre. Large pregalebllar lip similar in this specimen as F. croneisi, but lacking the pustules of the latter.

Hey, there, a while ago my dad bought a trilobite (flexicalymene?) from a trip, I recently found it in my pond and I washed away the algae and dirt and stuff, however the fossil (if real) seems really fragile, it broke into numerous pieces while cleaning. I noticed that there are two color layers in the cross section of the trilobite, and some of the pieces seem like they are just carved out of a rock, no bone structure or anything to separate itself from the rock. The only detail that is convincing me that this might be a real is that there are numerous little shell structures beneath the trilobite (see pictures). So please help me identify the type of trilobite and most importantly if it is real. Thanks in advance. (sorry for bad english)
Sorry for tiny images, the forum won't let me upload more than 3 MB

Hi fellow Fossil Forum members. I have been collecting Vermont trilobites in a location for awhile and am wondering if both of these trilobites are Flexicalymene senaria or do I have two different species. I keep getting conflicting opinions from my fellow collectors. I collected both trilobites from the same area. When I prepped them I thought that were some significant differences in the cephalons. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

A few weeks ago I gave two field trip reports on a collecting trip I did on frozen Lake Champlain on the last two days of February. The first day stayed below 10 degrees and the second day warmed up to the teens. Here are the first two trilobites that I prepped from that trip. They are also the third and fourth trilobites I have ever prepared. The second one was difficult because it broke in three pieces and it was covered in crinoid pieces and trilobite pleura.I have several more to do but my microscope lamp died and I am waiting for a replacement bulb.

After having a productive day on the ice yesterday (see Sub Zero Field Trip Report), I convinced my wife Alison to go out with me today. The temperature was a balmy 26 degrees Fahrenheit today. This time I brought a sled, my crack hammer and a slate bar.
Instead of repeating the same trek I took my wife to a hundred yard long section of ledge where I found the negative of an Isotelus gigas the day before. Within 15 minutes of arriving Alison found a complete eight-inch Isotelus gigas eight feet up on the cliff on the under side of an overhang. She told me it was too bad we couldn’t get it. I told her that we would continue down the exposure and that I would try and get it on the way back in case I hurt myself trying to collect it.
We proceeded down the exposure and collected several Flexicalymene senaria, a cephalopod and what I believe is a small colonial coral. One of the trilobites was behind a boulder leaning on the ledge, which Alison had crawled under. It was very tricky to extract.
On the way back I climbed the cliff up to the Isotelus gigas and after about twenty minutes I was able to break the slabs free that the trilobite was on. Unfortunately one of the larger 30-pound blocks bounced funny and hit Alison in the thigh. Fortunately she had my smartphone in her front pocket, which took the brunt of the impact and dispersed the impact so that she was able to walk away without a bruise. I will need a new phone case however.
On our long walk back we stopped where we usually collect and Alison sat on a rock. When I looked over at her I saw the largest Flexicalymene senaria we have ever found on its face. Unfortunately the fossil was on a very large rock. The good news was that it fit in the sled. The not so good news was that I had to make three trips up the hill with the sled and had to pull it up the hill to the car by itself because it was so heavy. I now have even more to prep this winter. I guess there are worse problems to have. Because of photo size I will post additional photos as separate posts.

Let me start off by saying that this has been a much colder than normal winter. The average temperature these past 30 days has been 70 F. Usually we average 220 F this time of year. A friend of mine just sent me pictures of fossils he saw at the Tucson show which really gave me the collecting bug. Last night I decided to go out collecting this morning despite 12-18 inches of snow on the ground.
Because of the extreme cold Lake Champlain has frozen solid for the first time in five years. I decided to try collecting using a technique I tried 25 years ago. The method involves walking on lake ice and checking out the ledges that are only accessible by boat in the summer. I packed light because I knew that I would be walking in deep snow for several miles and I didn’t expect to find much. I now wish I had brought heavier equipment, snow shoes and a sled.
When I got in my car for the trip up to the Islands my car’s thermometer read -30 F. By the time I got to the parking lot the temperature had rose to a balmy 00 F. After walking for about a mile of familiar collecting ground buried under snow I reached the cliffs that I wanted to look at. While most of the ledges were covered by ice and snow, some protected areas were visible.
These ledges are close to the Grand Isle ferry and I noticed that every time the ferry went by their travel zone through the ice about 200 yards away that the ice would pop, crack and buldge under my feet. My mantra for the day was “The ice is over three feet thick. It won’t break out from under me.” Before long I had my first Flexicalymene Senaria, which is known in the Devonian layers I was searching. The cold was so bad that any time I stopped to look at exposed rock my feet would go numb and start hurting. Thankfully there was no wind.
Within an hour I collected several of these trilobites in various degrees of completeness. After walking about four miles I saw what looked like a limestone layer that I recognized on other parts of the Island as holding Isotelus Gigas.
Within 10 minutes I found an enrolled Isotelus which is still in the rock where I found it. This formation is so hard that a masonry hammer has no chance of breaking it apart. After walking another ten feet I found a prone Isotelus Gigas which is shown in one of the photo’s. Shortly after finding it I found a nice 2 inch Flexicalymene Senaria which I will be prepping as soon as I fix my dust collector.

Flexicalymene Retrosa trilobite Neuvville Formation / Ordovician Quebec city Area, Quebec, Ca. The trilobite is 2 cm long.
When I found this trilobite, only is head was out of the rock and it is a little water damaged! But I had the feeling that the whole body was there to! There it is!

Flexicalymene granulosa, Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario. Georgian Bay formation, late Ordovician. Complete specimen still embedded in the shale. Will need prep work to be exposed. I found this one at a collapsed cliff of shale at Mimico creek. I found some flexi's this summer at Mimico creek but usually whole specimens start crumbling apart the moment I try removing the matrix around the specimens.

In 1970 I found an outstanding fossil location about 2 or 3 miles north of Oldenburg on the one road going through town. You stay to the left (west) and when you find the creek following the paved road on the west side... you are there. There is a turnoff that the farm's owners uses to take his tractor to the field and cross the creek. It is flowing all year round.
The erosion along the stream bank has unlimited numbers of weathered out fossiliferous shale-limestone slabs with partial Isotelus and Flexicalymenes. The true treasures were in the creek bed shales when split, large Isotelus gigus were found in good numbers. Absolutely perfectly preserved and split well when wet. I would lay them out in the shade to dry out and the shell would not fracture and break off. They were all laying flat.
The Flexicalymene meeki were rolled and flat. From pea size to that of a nickel in the shale and washed into gravel beds on bends in the creek.
I told a person about my find when leaving Indianapolis while stationed there for a couple months. They came back, or someone they obviously knew and paid the farmer $500 to "quarry the location" out. The farm house is about a mile north and a turn to the east. I could not find the name of the farmer, who would be deceased by now, but his nephew was the next of kin and is probably working the farm today. New homes were being built in the area as well along the east side of the road.
Inquire to the current owner of the field and you will then have the right person to ask. Since I FOUND THIS LOCATION I am offering this to anyone interested. But, please respect the property rights of the owner and if there is a current fossil collector leasing a part of the creek bed. I am sure there are lots of specimens to be discovered in this brushy slow moving creek.
After 44 years the memory is very clear to me. I did not realize I had discovered a unique spot in an area that would not have been discovered by any method but by accident.
I was at the Tucson Rock Show last February and saw a 12 inch or so Isotelus mounted on the wall with "inquire as to price" and a person interested. It said "Oldenburg, Indiana" and he was the person who had leased this patch of ground. He sold it while I was there.
Once you can GPS the elevation of the strata, there could be other sites available to work.
I just remember this farmer riding his big tractor down the road to see what I was finding that day. I gave him a very large Quartz Crystal many years later when I took my wife to see this spot... to discover it had been bull dozed out. You cannot get them all, I say.
Good luck. Check with the current owner and be prepared to find all the slabs you could ever carry washing out of the creek bank and maybe... there are some trilobites missed in the tailings.
I am sorry I have no photographs, but might have some color slides that can be digitized if there is much interest.
You might have heard of Waldron, Indiana and the Waldron Shale. This location did not have any crinoids, but sure had all of the partial trilobites and scattered brachiopod shells you could ever expect.